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Mary Magdalene

In Our Time: Religion

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The Intimate Discipleship of Mary Magdalene

I don't think the New Testament attempts to marginalize Mary. When Mary goes to the disciples and tells them Jesus is written, they don't believe her. Peter then represents the kind of disciples that have got things wrong. And Mary Magdalene is the disciple that has got things right. So Mary becomes the symbol of a church that is itself marginalised in the second, third, fourth century.

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